Doris Jean Hodge Miller

Doris Jean Hodge Miller

Age 89, Harrisonburg, Va.

Doris Jean Hodge Miller passed away Thursday, June 6, 2024, at Sunnyside Retirement Community, where she had resided since November 2023.

Doris was born at Pack’s Branch, West Virginia, to Nina Elizabeth (Williams) and Elbert Hodge on March 8, 1935.

Doris was a graduate of Mount Hope High School in West Virginia and the University of Maryland, where she earned an accounting degree.

Doris was united in marriage to Ralph L. Miller on February 25, 1956. They lived in Maryland, where Doris worked for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Ralph worked for NASA and later NOAH as an electrical engineer.

Upon retiring in the late 1980s, Doris and Ralph moved to Luray, Virginia. During their retirement they enjoyed travel in their motorcoach with the Virginia Cardinal travel group. They visited every state in the United States except Hawaii.

Doris attended Grace Lutheran Church and was active in the Page Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and the Hill and Valley Garden Club. In the spring, in addition to tending her flowers and garden, she looked forward to using her accounting skills by doing volunteer tax preparation through the AARP.

Doris was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph; her mother and father; two sisters, Leona Hall and Cloteile Belveal; and one brother, Emerson. 

She is survived by two sisters, Sylvia Rosenshine of Waynesboro, and Orquida Hurd of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; two brothers, Richard of Sunnyside and Glenn (Sandra) of Harrisonburg; and many nieces and nephews.

There will be a visitation at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, 2024 at Bradley Funeral Home in Luray, Virginia. Funeral services conducted by the Rev. Sandy Wisco will follow at 2 p.m. Interment will follow at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in Doris’s memory may be made to one of the following: Grace Lutheran Church, Page Public Library or the Luray Volunteer Fire Department.

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